If we want our children as adults to value their natural heritage and to make informed and thoughtful decisions about natural resource issues, we must enable them to understand and relate to the natural world on a personal level.
Our youth live increasingly urban and technological lives, isolated from the natural environment. Salmon Watch enables students to connect with nature and experience the relationships of humans to their environment through learning about the life cycle of wild salmon.
Overall, Salmon Watch serves as a successful model of cost-effective collaboration among private and public organizations working together to enhance education as well as protect salmon populations and the ecosystems that sustain them.
Using salmon as the focal point, Salmon Watch provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary education in the classroom, field study and in-stream observation, and community service projects.
Our Vision is that that human beings across the Pacific Rim will appreciate and understand that we are interconnected with salmon, a keystone species whose well-being mirrors the health of our natural environment.
Our Vision is that that human beings across the Pacific Rim will appreciate and understand that we are interconnected with salmon, a keystone species whose well-being mirrors the health of our natural environment.
Founded in 2012, World Salmon Council is currently focused solely on delivering and expanding the Salmon Watch program. Salmon Watch was founded by Oregon Trout (later The Freshwater Trust) in 1993. Over the past two decades, the program has educated more than 60,000 schoolchildren in Oregon. The program was discontinued by The Freshwater Trust at the end of 2010 (due to a shift in organizational mission) and re-established by World Salmon Council to serve communities throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Our mission is to provide experiential education and encounters with Pacific wild salmon to connect students and adults with nature and empower community engagement.
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